Agentless Inventory for Servers

It's strange to me that there seem to be no (or at least very few) questions on IT Ninja about agentless inventorying. We would love to be able to use agentless provisioning on our Windows servers, but it seems that you cannot use that feature for Windows devices. We have 50+ servers and it is really a waste to have to keep licenses for those since our only purpose to get get an inventory of them. Is it at all possible to set up an agentless monitoring solution for these?

If the SNMP service is available and configured on the Windows device you can add it as an agentless device to the inventory. I just did it.

I did it and works...the only problem may be the amount of information we are able to ''carve'' from the Microsoft Windows SNMP and what info the Microsoft implementation of this protocol currently provides.

That is correct. Discovery for printers, switches...etc. will not consume a license. Once you provision it for inventory, it does.

Note that customers who owned K1 before 2/23/2015 currently have a grace period to inventory non-computer devices (printers...etc.) at no cost. We will begin enforcing the licensing counts in the next release (v6.3 + 1). (Computers are not included.)

Awesome! Thanks for the update Ken. Do you know if agentless inventory of Windows devices counts toward the node license count? I know the previous rule of thumb was that if the device was Windows, it used a license. Just wondering how that works now.

Don't be a Stranger!

It’s easy to add custom SNMP OID GETs to your Dell KACE K1000 inventory, but where do you find the exact OIDs you need for a specific device? This is the place to share the OIDs and MIBs you have – and to request the ones you need.